... THE REVIVAL OF STOOLBALL. The old English game of stoolball a correspondent), wtuch ha.lately been revived id and Kent, proves particularly suitable for a lawn game, as it dors not injure the aa cricket d ...

... for it cays as far as we can erems to have b-en evolved cat of stool-ball, cat, or, as it was called, cat From: rend wes borrowed the on the ericket—which gave its name tc time. From stool-ball, too, we have the c OF i most and dog we borrow that part of ...

... three feet high. Stool-ball and the merry meetings of lads and 1 , hisses at it, gave subjects to many of the poets sad soar-writer, of two eenturies ago. Addison, ' in the Guardia*, mentions Tom D'Urfey's little i -ode on Stool-ball, in the lively author ...

... patrons. Mr. Ditchfield writes austerely of the wilder games: to which, in sooth, his motherings and whistling matches, his stool-ball and barley-brake, his soul cakes and apple-diving and collar grinning, were but as water unto wine. His account of bear- ...

... Pyeroft, Lillywhite's Scores and Biographies, Bolland's Cricket Notes, and other authorities. 44 Rounders, hockey, club-ball, stool-ball, a game analogous to cricket, played by women of the past generations in the south of England, with a wooden battledore ...

... A%es. From ‘*‘polo” can be traced the whole family of'golzo croquet, and tennis ; and our cricket is the successor of the “*stool-ball,” in which bne person bowled at and another defended a *“‘stool the legs of which are represented in the modern wicket ...

... divided in opinion as to whether cricket came from cricket a stool or trice a staff ; the first being the object aimed at in stool-ball, the second the instrument used in hitting the ball. Btool-ball was a girl's game, and so Mr Lang may be said to have put ...

... hand tennis . to which the name of- fives via given , but the ball . wag struck by the naked hand . Balloon-ball and stool-ball ' ' were two ' other fnrms which Mire out of hand-ball . ••• Club-ball , played in the timo of Henry III . I 1218 - ?) ...

... seems to have been evolved out of stool-ball, and tip.cat, or as it was called. rat and dog. Froth stoel-ball was borrowed the primitive wicketra stool, or cricket—which (perhaps) gave its name to the pastime. Irian stool-ball, too, we have the custom of teasing ...

... are still supposed to commence properly at Easier. In England these games of ball have always been exceedingly numerous. Stoolball, a game played by two persons seated on stool., who throw the ball from one to the other in a peculiar fashion, is alluded ...

... ON THE ** Though the fair sex have got in stoolball a species cricket for themselves, they bave frequently figured wich bat and ballon tho legitimate cricket field. Soathey notes a match betwesn the and the maids of Bary, in which the older ladies @ere ...

... said whan and where cricket was first started, but had satisfied himself that it originated from the old English game of stool-ball. That was played four centnriea ago, and was very simple game. Its ooastitneota were boy and girl, threelagged stool, and ...